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On Contradiction, along with Mao's text On Practice, elevated Mao's reputation as a Marxist theoretician. [12]: 37 It became a foundational text of Mao Zedong Thought. [4]: 9 After Mao was celebrated in the Eastern Bloc following China's intervention in the Korean War, both texts became widely read in the USSR. [12]: 38
In On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People, Mao discusses the contradictions still existing in socialist society. According to Mao: [3]: 168 In socialist society, the basic contradiction is still the contradiction between productive relations and productivity and between the superstructure and the economic foundation. However ...
In 1978, a kindergarten in Shanghai put up propaganda on the wall that writes, in Mandarin pinyin, "Hurray for the release of the 5th volume of the Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung" A fifth book was planned as early as 1960, to include selected writings from the PRC period, but Mao resisted its production as he felt his essays and speeches on ...
On Practice expands on Mao's criticism of dogmatism in his 1930 essay, Oppose Book Worship. [3]: 96–97 The text begins with Mao's emphasis on practice over theory, and states, "Marxists hold that man's social practice alone is the criterion of the truth of his knowledge of the external world."
The Continuous Revolution Theory is rooted in Mao's thoughts regarding the nature of contradiction. He argues that, since contradictions within society between revolutionary and reactionary elements can be expected to continue for a long time, it is necessary to work continuously toward the progressive fulfillment of the revolutionary program.
Mao's usage of the slogan built on his themes in On Practice, which argues that people must apply their knowledge to practice in reality in order to test its truthfulness. [ 3 ] : 38 Beginning in 1978, it was further promoted by Deng Xiaoping as a central ideology of socialism with Chinese characteristics , [ 4 ] and applied to economic and ...
Mao starts off the book by critiquing the "defeatist exponents of the theory of national subjugation". [3] He argues that because of the creation of the Second United Front and national "perseverance" the Japanese have failed to achieve a victory through mobile warfare and that China was now engaged in a "protracted war". [ 3 ]
We should study Marxist books, but [this study] must be integrated with our country's actual conditions. We need books, but we must overcome book worship, which is divorced from the actual situation." [1]: 96 In this view, Marxism–Leninism requires theory to be tied to local conditions through revolutionary practice. [3]: 37